Jeffrey Lord

Jeffrey "Jeff" Lord was an associate political director under US President Ronald Reagan druing the 1980s and a political commentator on CNN. In 2016, he supported US Republican Party candidate Donald Trump as the presidential nominee, and he was known for his many controversial views.

Biography
Jeffrey Lord was from the United States state of Pennsylvania, and he earned a degree from Franklin and Marshall College before becoming a press aide of the Pennsylvania State Senate. During the 1970s, he worked as the press secretary for congressman Bud Shuster, and he worked for Senator H. John Heinz III as his executive assistant. Under President Ronald Reagan, he served as an associate political director in the White House, and he served in various Republican political positions into George W. Bush's presidency. Lord would later become a political commentator, and he made many controversial statements; he claimed that the lynching of Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod's relative was "fallacious", he compared Barack Obama to Mao Zedong and his supporters to the Hitler Youth, and claimed that the Ku Klux Klan was left-wing. In 2016, he supported Donald Trump as the US Republican Party's nominee for president.